Posted by JRSutton on August 11, 2014 at 10:00:56 from (71.174.108.252):
My parents have been gone for several years now. My siblings and I still maintain their house.
Our grandfather built it, and it's a great meeting place for our large family.
Between all of us, keeping the old house doesn't really break the bank since we split all the costs so many ways.
But here's my rant:
We had somebody come in to give us a quote on completely redoing one of the rooms on the house (it's a typical new england cape style - wide with lots of "attachments").
The room has large (maybe 5'x5') windows that are a little dated, we'd like something to replace them.
The contractor claims we can't get a permit to do the work because the windows are too large. And/or we couldn't get windows that size because nobody makes them due to the new regulations...
Apparently there's some new regulation here in Massachusetts that any new work has to meet certain energy efficiency standards - and that much window space per the square footage of the room doesn't meet the standard...
I don't know all the details about this regulation - but I'm afraid my head's going to pop if I try to look into it. It sounds like the bottom line is, if we want to redo the room it has to be with smaller windows...
Has anybody else dealt with this?
Not really looking for ways around it - I'm just depressed that the size of my windows has some how become the business of my government.
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